Faith Quotes

You can be a virtuous person without faith in God.

Happy is the son whose faith in his mother remains unchallenged.

I realized that my truest passion was for helping people change through faith in a higher power. That meant, for me, belonging to the church. Using my abilities to bring Christian doctrine to a postmodern world.

Faith is deliberate confidence in the character of God whose ways you may not understand at the time.

While your life is the true expression of your faith, whom can you fear?

I had faith in Israel before it was established, I have in it now. I believe it has a glorious future before it - not just another sovereign nation, but as an embodiment of the great ideals of our civilization.

We have no desire to convince anyone that there is only one way by which faith can be acquired.

Doing films in Latin America is like an act of faith. I mean, you really have to believe in what you're doing because if not, you feel like it's a waste of time because you might as well be doing something that at least pays you the rent.

I think it's a good thing for a president or political leaders to want to put their values or their faith into action. Desmond Tutu did that in South Africa. Martin Luther King Jr. did that here. This is a good thing.

Faith... must be enforced by reason... when faith becomes blind it dies.

These past years, as we have been recovering and given our city a rebirth, we have been encouraged by our faith, knowledge, and steadfast belief that we will pull through. There will be challenges and setbacks, as there have already been, but we will continue, and we the citizens of New Orleans will prevail in bringing our city back.

My gut feeling about sequels is that they should be premeditated: You should try to write a trilogy first or at least sketch out a trilogy if you have any faith in your film.

It's OK to be outspoken about your faith.

Belief in a cruel God makes a cruel man.

Rome should sometimes intervene and say this or that is not in conformity with the Catholic faith. Theologians should understand that. Some theologians go too far, for example, reducing the Catholic faith to a universal philosophy.

Life's a fight. It's a good fight of faith.

In the evening of life we shall be judged on love, and not one of us is going to come off very well, and were it not for my absolute faith in the loving forgiveness of my Lord I could not call on him to come.

The enemies of the Christian religion and the Law of God confuse law with faith.

If you cast your bread upon the water and you have faith, you'll get back cash. If you don't have faith, you'll get soggy bread.

Faith - you can do very little with it, but you can do nothing without it.

I am one of those who would rather sink with faith than swim without it.

Our national motto is 'In God we Trust,' reminding us that faith in our Creator is the most important American value of all.

If faith is your motivation, share that.

Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.

It helps, I think, to consider ourselves on a very long journey: the main thing is to keep to the faith, to endure, to help each other when we stumble or tire, to weep and press on.

I looked at some of the statues of Jesus; they were just stones with no life. When they said that God is three, I was puzzled even more but could not argue. I believed it, simply because I had to have respect for the faith of my parents.

When faith is lost, when honor dies, the man is dead.

A wise ruler ought never to keep faith when by doing so it would be against his interests.

I must have had faith that day. When I went out, I was Henry Fonda again. An unemployed actor but a man.

All is amiss. Love is dying, faith's defying, heart's denying.